July 17, 2007
Good work in class today all. I know a lot of the material we covered was boring and tiresome, but as we continue this semester, much of what we discussed today will come back. It's like laying the foundation of a house, its hard work that nobody sees, but you need it more than anything. Following is a list of what we have covered so far;
Bad research in popular press
3 Types of information (retrieval, processing, and new info)
Epistemologies (Personal Experience, Intuition, Authority, Tradition-Custom-Faith, Superstition)
2 Types of Research (Propriety v. Scholarly)
6 Characteristics of Research
What all Communication Scholars Have in Common
5 Phase Model of Communication Research
2 Major Paradigms (Positivists & Naturalists)
For discussion, lets have everybody select an epistemology and give an example of a truth they learned through that particular epistemology. For example, I believe that when conducting a statistical t-test, one should always use a two-tailed test. My advisor at MSU told me that. I don't know why, but he is the editor of measurement and analysis (the highest research methods honor), so I believe so through Authority.
Jeffrey B.
Bad research in popular press
3 Types of information (retrieval, processing, and new info)
Epistemologies (Personal Experience, Intuition, Authority, Tradition-Custom-Faith, Superstition)
2 Types of Research (Propriety v. Scholarly)
6 Characteristics of Research
What all Communication Scholars Have in Common
5 Phase Model of Communication Research
2 Major Paradigms (Positivists & Naturalists)
For discussion, lets have everybody select an epistemology and give an example of a truth they learned through that particular epistemology. For example, I believe that when conducting a statistical t-test, one should always use a two-tailed test. My advisor at MSU told me that. I don't know why, but he is the editor of measurement and analysis (the highest research methods honor), so I believe so through Authority.
Jeffrey B.
posted by Dr. Jeffrey Bolt at 1:01 PM
17 Comments:
One of the biggest truths that I have learned was from an authority figure in my life. My parents growing up taught me to do many things. One was to wash my hands so I do not get sick. As a kid I did it just because my parents told me to and that was that. Today my reasoning has changed to understanding the medical point of view that soap actually kills germs, which helps me stay healthy.
Brent Kovacs
My father has always taught me growing up that it is both tradition and customary for boys and men to open doors for ladies, pull out their chairs, take their jackets, and other things like that. As I've gotten older I realize it's not that way for everyone, but for me I thought it was because he said so.
Mike Cutlip
I have learned not to do certain things because of my personal experiences. When I was little, I learned the hard way about some things. I learned not to put my things in the electrical outlets around the house. I also learned not to listen to my older brother because he told me to do that.
Tara Pryor
An example of a personal experience for me is when I was younger and decided to touch the iron with my entire hand. My dad had told me time after time that it was hot and never to touch it. But I had to find out for myself. Since then I have trusted that all iron's are hot.
Kristin Peters
I usually believe something is true by personally experiencing it. Defiantly going along with what we learned in class today I would doubt research because I have had first hand experience that contradicts it. Here's a quick example, my friend told me that signing up for those credit cards to get free T-shirts will be so annoying and time taking when they call you or send you a card you don't want it. All I thought was I would just call them and cancel it the next day and cool free shirt! Because I didn't take her word for it I was stuck talking to those credit card people for hours just to cancel numerous credit cards. Word of Advice-Don't Do It! Take my personal experience as you epistemology!
Lori Lynn Cartellone
When I was about 4 years old I caught an episode of Star Trek and I loved it, but my mom (an incredibly Catholic woman) told me that if I watched that I'd turn into a 'trekkie' when I got older. In turn, I was forbid to check out Star Wars as well.
Epistemologically speaking, due to her authority, I am not one of those people who wishes he could kick it with Dr.Spock, Hans Solo, and Kal-El on some rock in a galaxy far far away :p
Josh Dayton
PS. Dr B, if you really feel like taking a dig at me, I'm a huge radiohead nut...
The best way I learn anything is from personal experience.
When I was younger my dad always told me not to climb to high in trees especially when no adult was around. One day while my dad was inside entertaining company my brother said that I couldn't climb higher then he could. To show my brother up I climbed high, got scared, and wouldn't come down. Proceeded to get stung by a bee and fell out of the tree. Needless to say, I never climbed a tree again.
Melissa Yusko
When I was younger my father always told me to be careful and not become to cocky when I was riding my 4wheeler. One day, a few years later, I was showing off and drove up a steep hill and flipped the 4wheeler on-top of myself. Luckily I walked away without a broken bone, but my confidence was crushed. I am very careful anymore when I ride due to my personal experience. I am just one of those people that learns things the hard way, but aren't we all...
Sorry, forgot to leave my name.
4Wheeler Story - Leah Eister
Growing up I was always told that if pay attention in class and work hard your grades will show it. However, once I entered Kent I found out no matter how hard I worked, I was always the whipping boy for the exams. A psych. professor taught me how to relax when taking the exam and because she worked with mental roadblocks I listened and my grades have benefited.
Jason Corrin
I come from a very large Italian family. Every Sunday my family would get together for dinner. When I was younger on several occasions I would try to skip some dinners. My mother would always scold me until I went. She would tell me that dinner on Sunday was a tradition and that continuing such tradition would allow the family to stay close. Now that I am several years older, I appreciate the tradition of Sunday dinners because of the close bond my family holds.
Jessica Culp
My Personal Experience has taught me what it takes to succeed at school. When I was 18 I really did not care about school, I performed horribly in college. I dropped out after 2 years and got a "real job". This job taught me the value of an education, because believe me, real jobs suck. So now I try really hard at school and I truly care about learning, because I do not want to have to work a crappy job that I am unhappy at for the rest of my life.
Brian Cox
When I was younger I shared a room with two of my sisters. My older sister, Mary told me that when I fell asleep all my toys came alive and would play. Since I believed her authority I had a hard time falling asleep, because I kept trying to catch them moving around.
Joan Szczepanik
My epistemology is based on personal experience. Everyone always says when you go to college, don't become roommates with any of your close friends, because you might not be friends by the end of the school year. Well I went what everyone else's advice and moved in with two of my close friends my junior year. Needless to say, our relationship hasn't been the same, and we didn't renew our lease.
Tamara Goodwin
The epistemology i have used is personal exoerience.For example,in high school,i dated a lot of jerks,i started to think all guys were like that. my mom & friends would tell me that they're not all bad, but i wouldn't believe it. Until i meet the guy i am with now.Now i know that i cant make generalizations about a whole gender because of a couple of bad apples.
shahara mcgee
One truth I learned was from my dad. He is a very superstitious person. He has a superstition about wearing blue sapphire stones. If it is your birthstone, it’s supposedly really good luck. But if you wear sapphire and it’s not you’re birthstone, you could have really unfortunate luck. If it is not your birthstone, there is “a test” you can do to see if you are one of few that it is compatible, because if you are, it is said to bring you very good luck. You’re supposed to wear the stone for three days and if anything bad happens to you in those three days (anything from stubbing your toe to a major injury) you are to immediately take the stone off because it will bring you nothing but bad luck, but if nothing bad happens then you are compatible and it will bring you good fortune.
My dad’s uncle tried this out and on the first day he tripped down the stairs. Everyone told him to take it off but he didn’t listen. He thought it was all just coincidence. The next day he ended up being late for work and on his way ended up getting into a terrible accident on his way in and was rushed to the hospital. He finally took the stone off but my whole family is very superstitious about the whole thing. To this day I haven’t tried it because I just trust my dad on things like this. He has an eerie sixth sense about this kind of stuff and they are normally always true.
Monica Ghose
I come from a large and very close extended family on my mom's side. Each Thanksgiving we get together to celebrate christmas & thanksgiving with my grandparents. When I was younger I took the gathering for granted by being so wrapped up in my teenage ways. My mother used to make me socialize with the family. But I always thought that my grandparents would be around forever and we would all remain a big happy family no matter what. Now, several of my cousins can no longer come and my grandparents' health is failing.
I am very grateful that I was forced to socialize with my realitives. I now realize how special our family tradition is--it is not only for socialization but for several generations to connect and remain connected.
Jessica Lane
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